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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

Benjamin Whichcote

Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Men Repentance Should
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Body Mind Principles
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Firsts Impossible Men
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Christian Men Understanding
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Power Use Vain
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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Learning Taught Teacher
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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Ends Life Wish

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

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